Hebrew adjective · H818
אָשֵׁם
ashemaw-shame'
guilty
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼâshêm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H818is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H818
guilty; hence, presenting asin-offering
The King James renders it: one which is faulty, guilty.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ashem is rendered "guilty". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 42:21Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
Genesis 42:21אֲשֵׁמִ֣ים׀
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and guilty1
- guilty1
- like a guilty1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אָשֵׁרִי | Asheri | Asherite | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אֲשֵׁמִ֣ים׀1
- וַאֲשֵׁמִ֥ים1
- כְּאָשֵׁ֔ם1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine plural1HAampa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural1HC/Aampa
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular1HR/Aamsa
Genesis
one use
Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
- אֲשֵׁמִ֣ים׀ʾashemimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: guilty
2 Samuel
one use
The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?
- כְּאָשֵׁ֔םkeashempreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: like a guilty
Ezra
one use
Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.
- וַאֲשֵׁמִ֥יםvaashemimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and guilty
The letters
Gematria 341· 901 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.